October 2010
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September 2010
8 posts
“OPB BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out...”
– Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting
This made me laugh out loud! One of my coworkers actually came to my office to tell me Facebook was down - and ask me what are we going to do? Haha!
WatchBe the fruit loop in a box of cheerios. Android on a 7-inch Tab. You don’t even have to be on AT&T to get one. The only concern is the price. Hopefully Samsung pleasantly surprises us!
Geeksugar →
Where the geek is sweet :)
Version Control in Hg →
Don’t you just love it when they get their elements right? - says the non-practicing chemical engineer…
“You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”
– The Social Network movie. In theaters October 1.
My husband, who doesn’t even have his own Facebook account, is very eager to see this movie… which is good because I won’t need to convince him to watch it with me!
April 2010
1 post
Experience + Resourcefulness = Error-Less Code
Today a coworker asked me about a Warning that kept appearing in her website. It said the header had already been sent so it can’t do what she was asking the code to do. I had already seen this error before so I told her to remove and lines or spaces after the closing tag of any included file.
She looked at me like I had grown another head. But she did what I told her to do and one of...
February 2010
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Printing CSS Designs →
Many developers are usually tasked with removing all the ink-heavy images and graphics of a website so that they can print their page looking as close to a Word document as possible. My challenge was different. My clients wanted to print the website as it is seen on screen.
Now because it was a CSS-related problem, you would assume that the designer would be tasked to fix it. Wrong!
I was...
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HipHop for PHP
A PHP project I need to watch to be able to scale code when needed and to be able to build faster and more optimized applications. HipHop for PHP - source code converter. HipHop for PHP Tech Tasting
Clean Smart - Back It Up
Cleaning folders in a web server is not like cleaning house. You can not just throw everything away. Especially if you’re not sure if the files there are still being used by an application you have not worked on in years.
Always back up your files. Back up your data. Back up your documents. You’ll be grateful for your due diligence when the time comes. A file once lost, may...
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The Longer it Takes...
The very brilliant senior programmer who trained me was best known for these words of wisdom:
“The longer it takes you to solve the problem, the dumber the mistake.”
For PHP coders like me - it can be as simple as a missing semicolon or putting a trim when using values in the database as array keys. When we debug, we often assume that it is a logical error and completely miss...
January 2010
3 posts
Baby Boomers Get Connected with Social Media -... →
Generation X, Boomers and Matures prefer Facebook over MySpace. Generation Y & Z prefer MySpace over Facebook.
More Generation X and Boomers use LinkedIn and Twitter than other generations.
Considering I fall under the Generation X age demographic - I must agree with the findings above. I prefer Facebook and am more likely to use Twitter and LinkedIn. How does your social network...
Statistics on Facebook Users Who Have Donated to... →
39% of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money or goods to the relief efforts in Haiti - 13% via text messaging. Facebook Users 50 years old or over are twice as likely to make a donation than teenagers. 75% of respondents say they are not prepared for a natural disaster.
The union of the social networking site, Facebook, with the research company, Nielsen, provides...
The Need for Speed
When solving a complicated puzzle, it is always good to break it up into pieces and take it from there.
When it involves a database SELECT and an application that is loading at a crawl - take the SQL apart clause by clause. Start at the FROM clause. Take a long hard look at your table JOINs. Eliminate. Rearrange. Cross your fingers and watch it go!